Early baseball in Ohio/Club 10
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Location | Ohio |
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Year | 1866 |
City | Painesville |
State | OH |
Country | US |
Nickname | Athletics |
Found by | Larry McCray |
The Painesville Athletics is known to have played Ashtabula in September 1866, and its second nine played the local high schoolers.
James M. Egan, Jr., Base Ball On the Western Reserve (McFarland, 2008), page 7. The source may be the Painesville Telegraph.
Painesville is about 30 miles NE of Cleveland near Lake Erie.